The Return

Review: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson Spiegel & Grau 2015 I missed this one in its original offering, but I am glad to have discovered it in paper.     Yes, this is about justice and mercy from a lawyer’s own experience and practice.   A single case serves as the base story line for this book, but there’s plenty of others interspersed as well.   This reads as well as most recent fiction, but it’s true and with endnotes too.    Stevenson originally worked with death row inmates primarily in the Alabama prisons.   If you are from Alabama I’ll tell you now it isn’t a pretty story of the legal system in that state.   Not only in the days gone by, but also in more recent times.   Other states take some hits too, so he didn’t single just Alabama out.   And they aren’t all in the South. This book has been compared to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird .   It does carry a sad resemblanc...

Review: Subversive Jesus: An Adventure in Justice, Mercy, & Faithfulness in a Broken World Craig Greenfield Zondervan 2016   Isn’t it amazing how some of the smallest things can trigger changes in a life?   Happenstance of a beggar in a ratty T-shirt at the door of a tourist attraction in an Asian capital isn’t news or unusual, but just read this book and see what his presence did for one college kid.   That’s the beginning of Greenfield’s journey or adventure borrowing from the title of his book.   Well, mostly the beginning.   There was stuff before that episode that helped add to the effect.    I ordered this book after stumbling onto his web site (Take a look around it to see what he’s up to the last 20+ years.).   Greenfield has told his story in a way that is not only engaging, but convicting.   I am glad to see this sort of story being told more frequently.   I didn’t like some of the truth he laid out about...